CONGRATULATIONS to the following CON family members who were honored this week for their service years to UAMS! Thank you for all you do!! Donna Middaugh:  30 years Lee Blackwood:  20 years Karan Cox:  20 years Patricia Wright:  20 years Sonya Henderson 15 years Pamela LaBorde:  15 years Leanne Lefler: 15 years Sandra Lubin:  15 […]

Dr. Jean McSweeney, Ph.D, R.N., professor and associate dean for research in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Nursing and co-director of its Ph.D program recently spoke to a group in Mountain Home at Big Creek Country Club.  McSweeney shared about how heart disease is the number 1 cause of death […]

It was 2008. Amy Hester had just begun her master’s program, but she already knew she would require something else — a PhD.   Hester was manager of the neurology unit at UAMS and she and her team had noticed an issue with falls in the unit. Hester and her work colleague Dees Davis wanted […]

As depression and suicide rates continue to rise across the country, more health care providers and educators, including at the UAMS College of Nursing, are focused on doing more to address the problem. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Prevention show suicide rates increased by 30 percent in the U.S. between 1999 and 2016, […]